1980s · Role-playing
Games like Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy: first released 1987 by Square.

In the series: Final Fantasy (1987), Final Fantasy IV (1991), Final Fantasy VI (1994), Final Fantasy VII (1997), Final Fantasy X (2001), Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2013).
80 games inspired by Final Fantasy
- 3 Stars of Destiny: Retro JRPG sold through Aldorlea's own store.
- Ahriman's Prophecy: Free RPG Maker prequel to Aveyond, first released on the author's own site.
- Ara Fell: RPG Maker-built 16-bit style adventure, later Enhanced Edition.
- Asguaard: Retro JRPG with a demon-hunting hero.
- Aveyond 2: Ean's Quest: Second Aveyond JRPG-style adventure, first sold from Amaranth's site.
- Aveyond 3: Lord of Twilight: Episodic Aveyond sequel.
- Aveyond: Rhen's Quest: Shareware JRPG-style adventure first sold from Amaranth's site.
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Free parody JRPG shared only from the studio's own site.
- Before Crisis Remake: Fan remake of the Japan-only mobile Final Fantasy VII prequel.
- Breath of Death VII: The Beginning: Short 8-bit JRPG parody of Dragon Quest-era games.
- Chained Echoes: Solo-developed 16-bit JRPG drawing on Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Final Fantasy VI.
- Clad Generation: Small classic-style JRPG on itch.io.
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: French turn-based RPG openly inspired by Final Fantasy.
- Cris Tales: Colombian Kickstarter JRPG with time-split battles.
- Crystal Project: Solo-made open-world job-system RPG in the Final Fantasy V vein.
- Cthulhu Saves the World: 16-bit-style JRPG parody starring Cthulhu.
- Doraemon: Nobita's Final Fantasy: Obscure Japanese Final Fantasy fan game starring Doraemon characters.
- Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice: 16-bit sequel with on-map battles and monster capture.
- Dragon's Den II: The Terranic Empire: Tribute to Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
- Dragoon X Omega II (Final Fantasy ROM hack): The large-scale sequel to Dragoon X Omega, moved onto a modified Final Fantasy engine with a new world and story.
- Dungeon Monkey Eternal: Free tactical party dungeon crawler released on the author's GitHub.
- Edge of Eternity: Kickstarted French indie JRPG in the Final Fantasy mold.
- Fantasian Neo Dimension: Diorama JRPG by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.
- ff1snes: Port of the NES Final Fantasy to the SNES from its disassembly.
- FFVII Dreamake (made in Dreams): Fan recreation of Final Fantasy VII's opening built inside Dreams on PS4.
- Final Fantasy 4: Job System (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Rebuilds Final Fantasy IV around 14 Final Fantasy V-style jobs that change stats, gear, spells, commands and battle sprites.
- Final Fantasy 6: A Complete Hack (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Reworks Final Fantasy VI's sprites, script, bosses and equipment, with an optional hard mode.
- Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy: Long RPG Maker 2003 fan game made as an homage to the SNES Final Fantasy games.
- Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy Remake: Remake of the fan game Blackmoon Prophecy, planned at 40 to 60 hours.
- Final Fantasy C2 (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Loosely retells Final Fantasy II inside the Final Fantasy IV engine, with new side quests, summons, spells and items.
- Final Fantasy II-2: Genesis of the Dark Crystals: Fan-made sequel to the original Famicom Final Fantasy II.
- Final Fantasy IV Alter Destiny: Reimagining of Final Fantasy IV with an alternate storyline.
- Final Fantasy IV: Daughter of Darkness and Light (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Retells Final Fantasy IV with Rosa as the protagonist on a path to redemption after a different chain of events, built on Project II's restored content.
- Final Fantasy IV: The Darkness Within (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): A new story for Final Fantasy IV with reordered events, side quests, new dialogue and rebalanced spells, summons and gear.
- Final Fantasy IV: Ultima (SNES ROM hack): ROM hack adding story events, quests, superbosses and hidden areas to Final Fantasy IV.
- Final Fantasy IV: Unprecedented Crisis (Final Fantasy IV ROM hack): Made by the author of the FF4kster editor to show what it can do: the story starts familiar, then branches into a new sequence of events.
- Final Fantasy IX Demake: 8-bit style browser demake that explores Alexandria.
- Final Fantasy Redux (Final Fantasy ROM hack): A remaster of the NES Final Fantasy with twelve starting jobs, a revamped magic system and broad rebalancing.
- Final Fantasy Restored (Final Fantasy ROM hack): A definitive rebuild of the NES Final Fantasy that restores cut content, fixes the original's broken spells and items and rebalances the whole game.
- Final Fantasy V: Ancient Cave (Final Fantasy V ROM hack): Turns Final Fantasy V into a randomized dungeon crawl modeled on Lufia II's Ancient Cave.
- Final Fantasy VI Disassembly: Full buildable disassembly of Final Fantasy VI, one of a series covering FF II to VI.
- Final Fantasy VI Tactics: World of Ruin (Final Fantasy Tactics ROM hack): Recreates the main battles of Final Fantasy VI's story as a strategy game on the Final Fantasy Tactics engine.
- Final Fantasy VI: A Soldier's Contingency (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Expands Final Fantasy VI on top of the General Leo Edition with new monsters, equipment, battle themes and rebalanced combat that needs no grinding.
- Final Fantasy VI: Brave New World (SNES ROM hack): ROM hack that overhauls Final Fantasy VI's Espers, equipment and balance.
- Final Fantasy VI: Divergent Paths (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Reworks Final Fantasy VI's story around its characters, giving General Leo his own arc as a playable hero plus a secret 16th character.
- Final Fantasy VI: Hope Eternal and Love Everlasting (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Overhauls Final Fantasy VI with new enemies and items, tougher fights, a rewritten script and a more vivid palette, keeping the original maps and story beats.
- Final Fantasy VI: Return of the Dark Sorcerer (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): A brand-new game on the Final Fantasy VI engine, years in the making: new playable cast, new story, new maps and a custom soundtrack.
- Final Fantasy VI: T-Edition + EX (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): A popular Japanese expansion of Final Fantasy VI that keeps the story but adds side quests, new dungeons, super-bosses, alternate costumes and hundreds of music tracks from across the series.
- Final Fantasy VI: The Eternal Crystals (Final Fantasy VI ROM hack): Adds new music, sprites, espers and dungeons to Final Fantasy VI, with 15 playable characters.
- Final Fantasy VII (NES demake): Unlicensed Chinese Famicom demake of Final Fantasy VII, later fixed up by fan translators.
- Final Fantasy VII Reloaded (Unreal Engine 3 demo): Short first-person Unreal Engine 3 demo of Final Fantasy VII's opening.
- Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding (Fan Game): Fan recreation of the Final Fantasy VII snowboarding minigame.
- Final Fantasy VII: Jenova Corona: Browser fan sequel set two years after Final Fantasy VII.
- Final Fantasy XI Adventure (Fan Demake): Game Boy-style browser demake of Final Fantasy XI.
- Final Fantasy XI Braver: Retro offline single-player RPG of over 100 hours set in Vana'diel.
- Final Fantasy: Age of WarMECH (Final Fantasy ROM hack): A new story in which four friends flee their destroyed hometown, hunted by the superboss WarMECH, with new weapons, spells and items.
- Final Fantasy: Sky Warriors: NES-style fan prequel to the first Final Fantasy.
- Fortress of Hell: RPG Maker JRPG in Aldorlea's catalog.
- Grond's Final Fantasy (Final Fantasy ROM hack): An overhaul of the NES Final Fantasy with a New Game Plus mode, dual-wielding Ninjas and Monks, saving from the menu and every known bug fixed.
- Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass: RPG Maker dream adventure with EarthBound and Yume Nikki influences.
- Last Dream: RPG Maker JRPG capturing classic Final Fantasy, with touches of Ultima IV.
- Laxius Force: Long turn-based JRPG-style adventure sold as a direct download from Aldorlea's site.
- Laxius Force II: Second Laxius Force chapter, sold mainly from Aldorlea's own site.
- Laxius Force III: Conclusion of the Laxius Force trilogy.
- Laxius Soul: Seventh Laxius game, bought only through the BMT Micro cart on Aldorlea's site.
- Memoria: Community-rewritten engine for the PC Final Fantasy IX that fixes bugs and opens it to mods.
- Millennium: A New Hope: First of five episodic 16-bit-style RPGs about Marine; later also on Steam.
- OpenVIII: MonoGame reimplementation of Final Fantasy VIII.
- Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3: 16-bit-style JRPG continuation of the Penny Arcade series.
- Q-Gears: Open-source engine effort to run Final Fantasy VII data.
- Rise of the Third Power: Pixel-art JRPG pitched as a love letter to Final Fantasy VI.
- Shadows of Adam: Kickstarted 16-bit style RPG.
- The Book of Legends: Standalone 16-bit-style RPG Maker JRPG from Aldorlea.
- The Cruxis Sword: Traditional JRPG with a twist on the save-the-world story.
- Throne of Bones: Finale of the Throne series of 2D turn-based RPGs, sold direct from Aldorlea.
- Throne of Glass: Middle chapter of the Throne series, sold direct from Aldorlea.
- Throne of Shadows: First game of the Throne series, sold direct from Aldorlea.
- Undefeated: First official RPG Maker game ported from PC to mobile.
- Witch Hunt (Aldorlea): Retro 2D RPG about a witch whose boyfriend was turned into a chicken.
- xvibit (Final Fantasy XVI SNES demake): SNES-style demake of the Final Fantasy XVI demo.